Display-cabinet.



E. W. HESS.

DISPLAY CABINET. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1914.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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DISPLAY-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 12, 1914. Serial No. 861,412.

1 '0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN W. Hess, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Cresco, in the county of Howard and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its primary object an improved construction of device for use in refrigerating and attractively displaying fruits, flavors, liquors or the like in cafs, restaurants, or other places and to supply cold water entirely free from contamination from or contact with melted ice, the parts being so constructed and arranged that electrlc light bulbs will shine from below through glass containers holding fruits or other food articles and also against the liquid containers or bottles back of which a mirror is placed which separates the ice containing compartment from the food and drink holding compartment and at the same time enhances the attractiveness of the display. And the invention also aims to genei ally improve devices of this kind so as to render them more attractive and more commercially desirable.

With these and other objects in view, as will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain c011 structions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter more fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a refrigerating and display device embodying the improvements of my invention, Flg. 2 is a transverse sectional view, the section being taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and designated in all of the views of the accompanying drawing by like reference characters.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a case or cabinet whichmay be of any desired size, shape, or proportions of the parts and formed of any des red substance or materials, and of any desired construction, except as hereinafter noted. In the rear upper portion of the cablnet 15 the ice receiving compartment 2, the bottom of which is defined by a coil 3 on which the ice 1s adapted to rest, said coil being fed with water at one end by means of the supply pipe, (not shown) which extends up through the bottom of the cabinet and being provided at its discharge end with a faucet 5 underneath which is a drain cup or receptacle secured to the end wall of the cabinet 1 and communicating with a drain pipe 7 within the cabinet and extending down through the bottom thereof. Preferably the drain pipe 7 is provided with a'trap' 8 of any desired construction and it communicates, by means of a relatively short length of pipe 9 with a tray 10 disposed. horizontally within the cabinet just underneath the coil 3 on which are supports 11 for the coil. Thispan or tray 10 is designed to catch the drippings from the melting ice and convey the same to the pipe 9 and thence to the drain pipe 7-. Immediately in front of the ice receiving compartment 2 and like said compartment, extending longitudinally the full length of the cabinet, is the food and drink displaying and holding compartment 12. The rear of this compartment is divided by a vertically disposed longitudinally extending mirror 13 which separates this compartment from the compartment 2 and which is designed to assist in the attractiveness of the display of bottles on a longitudinally disposed shelf 14 and of fruit or the like in glass containers 15 that are inserted in openings 16 formed in a shelf 17 secured within the cabinet in the rear of the front thereof, as best illustrated in Fig; 2. Underneath the shelf 17 is a horizontally disposed shelf 18 for the support of the electric light bulbs 19 that are separated and insulated from the remainder of the cabinet by means of partitions 20.

21 designates the lead wires to the bulbs and 22 an electric'switch whereby the light may be controlled. Underneath the shelf 18 Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

pose of admitting access to the interior of the compartment 12 for the removal or replacement of any of the articles designed to be held therein. Preferably all .of these panels are of double glass with an air space between so as to reduce to a minimum the liability of collection of moisture. At the rear the cabinet is provided an upper door 27 whereby access may be had to the i'cef whereby access may be had to the refrigerate ing compartment 23. From the foregoing description in connece holding compartment 2 and a lower door 28? tion with the accompanying drawings, the

operation of my improved refrigerating display cabinet will be apparent. In the practical use of the device, the ice contained in' the compartment 2 and .resting directlygon the watercoil 3, will 'keep the water cold without the same comingin contact with or being contaminated by the ice and thejfarti-.

stood that the invention is not limited therel to but that various changes maybe made in the construction, arrangement and proportions of the parts without departing from the spiritfiofmy invention as defined in the appended claim. i

What ,is claimed, is:

A display device including a cabinet provided with a display compartment having transparentwalls, a shelf mounted in said compartment and provided with a series of openings for the reception of transparent receptacles, electriclamps mounted within the cabinet beneath the respective openings in the shelf, vertical Walls separating the lamps from each other whereby their rays are concentrated upon the respective transparent receptacles, a sheet of mirror glass arranged in thecabinet and defining the rear wall of the display compartment, and a second vertical supporting. shelf arranged in parallel relation to the first shelf rearwardly thereof and contiguous tothe mirror, said mirror refleeting the rays from the several lamps uponthe articles. supported on the latter shelf. 1 i

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature in. the presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN W. HESS. Witnesses:

GEO. A. SUMRoN. 

